Campbell is the best GOP candidate for U.S. Senate

http://www.mercurynews.com ^ | 04/10/2010 | Mercury News Editorial

[506Lake]

I’m not in Cali, but count me as one who wants DeVore to win.

[CdMGuy]

Unless Campbell has changed his stripes from the RINO I remember years ago when he was in Congress, he ain’t gettin’ my vote.

[GVnana]

My personal opinion is that the focus should be in the CA Republican primary is to vote for the person with the best chance of beating Boxer.

I, too, want someone who will win the general election. The close poll numbers are tempting. But Democrats took the Massachusetts vote for granted. They won't make that mistake in California.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“If civility and bipartisanship really are important to voters . . .”

I really don’t see what’s so “civil” about supporting partial-birth abortion, in which a full-term baby is partially delivered and then killed right before the entire body makes it out.

And as for “bipartisan,” it seems to me that Campbell’s support for same-sex marriage and opposition to the ban on partial-birth abortion are far from bipartisan, since they are positions held by a slight majority of Democrats and a miniscule percentage of Republicans and independents; if Campbell wanted to be bipartisan he should support traditional marriage and the partial-birth abortion ban. Same goes for Campbell’s anti-Zionist views and support for Islamist extremists—it is *opposition* to Campbell’s position that is truly bipartisan (unless the two party’s involved are Fattah and Hamas).

If California Republicans want a moderate that can defeat Boxer, they should support Carly Fiorina (who actually appears to be more conservative than people originally thought—she’s actually pro-life, a position that no Senator from California has taken since Roe v. Wade). Tom Campbell, on the other hand, is a liberal that can’t beat Boxer.

If no Republican would be stupid enough to nominate Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Senate because he’d be too liberal to win, why would they even think of nominating someone like Campbell that is more liberal than Arnold?

[Clintonfatigued]

There is a difference between nominating a RINO for Governor and nominating one for Senator. Governor is an executive post with singular responsibility. Choosing Schwarzenegger for Governor was a big mistake. He was incapable of standing up to the left. But a Senator is different. It's a shared responsibility and he would be part of a caucus dominated by conservatives. I don't know what to think about Carly Fiorina. Her campaign has run some supremely strange ads. She would probably have a better voting record than Campbell. But as a former California resident, I want Barbara Boxer out very badly.

[watchdogmom]

Campbell also has ties with radical groups,need to spread this like wildfire,[look it up]

[AuH2ORepublican]

If Fiorina can’t beat Boxer, Campbell sure as heck won’t.

[Randy Larsen]

This Conservative will vote for DeVore

[Impy]

Polling I’ve seen had Campbell and Fiorina polling about the same against Babs with Devore slightly behind their pace.

With her deep pockets and the visceral disgust Tom Campbell should inspire in the GOP base vote I suspect Fiorina is the better bet to win the GE, weird (I say brilliant!) ads or not.

According to my calculations there is no way Fiorina would be worse than Campbell.

BTW after his performance as Governor I couldn’t support DIABLO Arnold as a Senate nominee.